Shin Hanga prints
| Design: | Itō Shinsui (1898-1972) | |||||
| Title: | Frosty morning | |||||
| Series: | Ten sights of Shinano | |||||
| Size: | 25.7 x 36.2 cm (ōban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Artist’s name and red Shinsui seal in bottom right corner of the print:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 深 | shin | deep | |
| 水 | sui | water | Shinsui |
Print title and publishing date in right margin:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 霜 | sō | frost | |
| の | no | his | Frosty |
| 晨 | shin | morning | morning |
| 昭 | shō | clear | |
| 和 | wa | peace | |
| 廿 | nizyū | twenty | |
| 三 | san | three | The first month of |
| 年 | nen | year | the 23rd year of |
| 一 | ichi | one | the Shōwa era |
| 月 | gatsu | month | (i.e., January 1948) |
References
- Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts et al, eds. (1996). Ito Shinsui. All the woodblock prints. Japan: S. Watanabe Color Print Company.
Provenance: Castle Fine Arts